The Far Right and Democracy: What To Do?
This week we are spotlighting an article by Erik van Ree, member of UvA's Platform for Democratic Resilience and research associate at the UvA Duitsland Instituut.
Published by the Wiardi Beckman Foundation, this article explores how the Far-Right perceives democracy, before then tackling the complex question of how democracy can respond. In today's political climate, this article is a helpful guide not only to the views of the Far-Right in Europe and beyond, but also addresses the practical realities, and limitations, of responses.
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This article focusses on Far-Right views about democracy. Today’s Far Right aggressively offer their views on many questions, ranging from migration, Islam, gender, woke, to the “climate hoax” and the European Union. But most of the time they remain silent on the fundamental question of what to do with democracy. The article explores four notions that, given state practices in Russia, the US, and Hungary, seem to be guiding the Far Right: illiberal democracy, personalism, the ethnostate, and devolution of power.Erik van Ree